digging, fishing, ike, in nnlcr to >avc their 

 bark cloth, would join sovltiJ portions of this 



centre, in a manner ^lii^ilur to their mat-gnr-* 



mcnt, called Tiabuta, wear it as mi article oF 

 apparel, merely for tlie time in wliielj they may 

 be engaged in those occu])ations. It is certainly 

 a gaisaezHfi jniei^er W Be jsulmtrsd for its ilexibi- 

 07 fimmes^ but bett^a? ealculatQd for lisher- 



men, or those occnpied in the wati-r, if will 

 not be destroyed by wet, wliereas tlirir bark 

 cloth would be utterly destroyed in the water, 

 ite:subl9lmiee i^esibling paper, bdili m strength 



This fibrous not-work must also act as a secu- 

 rity to the huge fronds, against the violence <jf 

 the winds ; and a valuable precaution, by wbicli 

 W 43|tiie bimn«^ isfsevesoted, vMch 

 tMmwtm m%ht aidangier ^he Mves of tliose 

 passing under the frees ; it is not uncommon t0 

 see the dead branches hanging from the trees 

 pcrieetly dry, attiiched to the trunk only by tiiis 

 tenacious substance, and even ^en it requires no 

 IMe iBtt^tiltit fiaasiJlfoa to btiti& tb^ ddnii, 



Wfcett4^fl!g^ h'imclt of tlie fruit is seen pead- 



ing from, ap]>arently, so fragile a stalk, it seems 

 as if it were an impossihility that it conld sup- 

 ^ This siibstaucL' iss also us>ed lor suuill bags. 



